Eve Massingham

Dr Eve Massingham was a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Law at The University of Queensland, looking at the diverse ways in which the law constrains or enables autonomous functions of military platforms, systems and weapons, from September 2019 - August 2022. She is the co-editor of Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law (Routledge, 2020) and she has published widely in the field of international humanitarian law. Eve has spent most of her career with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Eve is currently working in the International Humanitarian Law team with the Australian Red Cross, returning in late 2025 after having worked in this team for many years prior to 2016. Eve has worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross as the Regional Legal Adviser for the Regional Delegation in the Pacific (2025), as the Regional Legal Adviser for East Africa (2016-2018), Regional Legal Adviser for Southern Africa (ad interim 2019) and as a Policy Adviser in the Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit in Geneva (2022-2023). She began her career at (then) Freehills (admitted 2004) and was an Associate to Justice Collier at the Federal Court of Australia. Eve has also served as an Australian Army Reserve Officer, graduating from Duntroon in 2001 as a member of the Queensland University Regiment. Eve holds qualifications including a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from Queensland University of Technology, a Master of International and Community Development from Deakin University, an LLM (Distinction) from King's College London (where she attended as a Chevening Scholar) and a PhD from the University of Queensland.